31 sheets bound in marbled boards containing drawings and sketches relating to several aspects of Gandys work both as an architect and as an antiquarian. There are drawings taken at Storrs in Windermere, Roslin, Melrose, Newcastle, Lancaster Church and Castle and Shrewsbury Market House.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1806
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 8,970
Institution: Sir John Soanes Museum
Town/City: London
Item date: 1867 - 68
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 5,000
Institution: Lancaster University
Town/City: Lancaster
County: Lancashire
10 volumes, the major source and inspiration for Ruskins The Bible of Amiens, a combination of religious exposition and architectural history. This set was probably taken to France by Ruskin as there is a sketch of tracery in pencil on a flyleaf in volume 6, dated Beauvais 1888.
Item date: 1895
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 1,443
Institution: Royal College of Music
Town/City: London
Previously unknown to scholars, this is the farewell address of the first director of the RCM, whose wise guidance from 1882 soon made the College an important part of the musical life of the nation
Item date: 1809 - 15
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 2,500
Item cost: 9,100
Institution: Northamptonshire Record Society
Town/City: Northampton
County: Northamptonshire
Acquired together with a sketch book with drawings by Lady Frances Elizabeth Compton, presumably the pupil of JC Nattes.
Item date: 1780s
Date acquired: 2001
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 48,000
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
Four beautifully illustrated notebooks, containing a fair copy of the Remarks on forest scenery, and other woodland views ... illustrated by scenes of the New-Forest in Hampshire, published in 1791.
Item date: 19th - 20th centuries
Date acquired: 2001
Grant Value: 4,707
Item cost: 14,215
Institution: Brontë Parsonage Museum [Brontë Society]
Town/City: Haworth
County: West Yorkshire
The papers of J Horsfall Turner, an early Bronte scholar and founding member of the Bronte Society.
Item date: 1788 - 89
Date acquired: 2001
Grant Value: 2,000
Item cost: 5,175
Institution: Devon Record Office
Town/City: Exeter
County: Devon
34 maps surveyed by Richard Davis, Topographer to George III. All are coloured and elaborately detailed, and bound together, they have the appearance of a fair copy as opposed to a working survey. Grant from the Esme Fairbairn Charitable Trust. Illustrated at p.30 of AR
Item date: 19th century
Date acquired: 2001
Grant Value: 3,500
Item cost: 4,500
Institution: RIBA Architectural Library
Town/City: London
375 drawings, representing the bulk of Preedys output. He was the only 19th century architect of the gothic revival to be a competent designer and manufacturer of stained glass and he was used by William Burges and William Butterfield in their building projects. ILlustrated at p.46 of AR
Item date: 1804 - 79
Date acquired: 2001
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 7,115
Institution: Regent's Park College
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
18 boxes of Manuscript letters, journals and associated papers, relating to the life and work of the Rev. John Clarke and his circle of Baptist pastors and missionaries.
Item date: 1879
Date acquired: 2001
Grant Value: 833
Item cost: 3,500
Institution: University of Nottingham
Town/City: Nottingham
County: Nottinghamshire
130 pages written in pencil throughout, containing material for the poem Sponsa Dei, with prose aphorisms, notes to himself and snatches of verse